29. General Hospital
James Franco's character is chased up a flight of stairswaving a gun and laughingand falls off a balcony to his bloody death while a black drag queen speaks the lyrics to Gary Jules' "Mad World."

"Who do you hang out with?"
"No one. I don't have any friends in the area. [shrug]"

After three months of unemployment, I'm more lost than ever, and rapidly descending into solipsism.

"Some days I don't leave my room. Some days I'm completely mute."
"Are you depressed?"
"Well, I'm constitutionally melancholic, but I think I'm more tentative and frustrated than depressed."

"How are you getting by?"
"Savings, mostly. I canceled my unemployment claim after two checks."
"Why?"
"Because I didn't deserve the money at the time, and I haven't bothered to re-open my claim."

I've been assisting a friend with a major project that I cannot discuss publicly, but it's not a dependable source of income. Eventually…

"At the end of an interview with an HR lady, she asked me if I had any questions. I said, 'Yes. As a child, did you want to be an HR lady when you grew up? Or are you an HR lady because you need to earn money somehow? Do you live and breathe human resources? Or is it primarily a job  one that you can perform satisfactorily?' I never heard back."

Animaniacs was similarly subversively aimed at adults, but I don't recall any characters using the word "sexy."

The animatics and storyboards posted at the Adventure Time Blog show characters saying "crap", making references to ultraviolence ("I'll rip off your skin and wear it like a little coat"), and have minor sex jokes ("You never turn into a monster when I want you to!!! It's always 'Not now Finn, I have a headache!!!'"). And a good chunk of it does make it into the show… [source]

What is up with the right leg of the "A"?
Oh. It's a mountain.
Because when I think of the west coast, I think of mountains.
Is this why we added Colorado and Utah? To justify the mountain?
Oh. It's a wave rolling into a mountain.

Experiment Idea: Compile all of Inception's rules. Find someone who has not seen the film. Ask him or her to study the rules. Show him or her a version of Inception with all the talky exposition cut out. See how he or she reacts.

At 1:25 in this video of the Street Fighter IV panel, you see a group of Street Fighter cosplayers (including Zangief) confront Tekken creator Katsuhiro Harada. I wonder if they coordinated their cosplaying. They are each dressed up as a different character.

I've attended one Comic-Con in my life  back when it was still primarily a comic convention  in 1993. I somehow convinced my parents to escort me, and they, in turn, roped in extended family in Seal Beach who had access to a house in San Diego, so like 20 of my relatives attended Comic-Con all because I wanted to.

Flash forward to 2006. I'm struggling to get through Watchmen.

"Yes! A splash page!"

"Ugh. These letters and reports… They're like the intercalary chapters of The Grapes of Wrath."

The highlight of my one Con? Meeting Don "Duck" Ewing of Mad magazine.

A female fan of Jackie Earle Haley dressed as his character on Human Target

Haley invited her on stage for all to see.

The women then went back to the front of the Q&A line and asked  somewhat sheepishly  "What would Guerrero do if a guy were into him?" [source]

Community panel: Donald Glover and Joel McHale re-enact one of Glover's many on-set personas  a homeless man obsessed with McHale.

We begin on the blood trail of Dr. Gordon, dragging himself down the hallway, just after cutting off his own foot in part one. He spots a hot, steaming pipe, and presses his bloody leg stump against it to cauterize the wound. [source]

You know Cary Elwes is desperate for work when he returns for the seventh Saw film, six years later.

Saw 3D is reportedly the final Saw film, but New Line greenlit 5nal Destination (working title) after THE Final Destination.

At one point we (Wu-Tang Clan) had disciplined ourselves so much that we wouldn't eat in a restaurant that sold pork.

None of the Clan members eat pork. About four of us are vegetarians, including DJ Mathematics — RZA, GZA, MastaKilla and oh! I think Meth is vegetarian now too! Cuz I used to always get on him with his steaks. I used to say you "you eatin' a pig pussy T-Bone?" He'd be like, "C'mon Jus, cmon, GZA, man stop!" And then about a year and a half ago he was like, "You know I'm a vegetarian now, right?"

To be fair, Armond wrote: "9/11 has unleashed the craziest, most self-destructive liberal fantasies. Salt will probably be taken seriouslyunlike the credible and poetic historical satire Jonah Hex."

"This thing rocks"?

This week in press releases:

"Every 20 years, a phenomenon like Justin Bieber graces our world. We'd like to believe that the phenomenon of CSI has had the same impact on popular culture. The opportunity to bring them together is a great treat for our audience. This will be true event television." [source]

Evidently, Lionsgate is promoting Buried at Comic-Con by letting attendees film themselves with a mobile inside a pine box and then post their videos online in a "virtual cemetery."

Buried alive videos, however, are only interesting if the victim is scared of being buried alive, and no one who is scared of being buried alive would ever volunteer to be shut inside a pine box, which leaves fanpuds pretending to be buried alive, which is lame and stupid.

"Help! I'm in a nutshell!"
-_-

What Lionsgate should do is plant a hidden camera on the underside of the box's lid and surprise participants with a harmless snake, spider or rat.

Q: As of this writing, which film is ranked between The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II on IMDb's Top 250?

Inception

I saw Inception twice on opening day  once in the morning and, after a bit of Internet reading, a second time at night to confirm that it's fairly straightforward until the final scene, in which Nolan plants the same seed of doubt in our heads that Cobb plants in Mal's head  a spinning top.

You can easily argue a strong case that the whole film is a dream. In the final scene, for example, Cobb's children look the same as his memory of them.

one thing i noticed, and id probably have to wait until all the way to the dvd to check this is that the layered scenes of the van/hotel/snow fortress all seem to conform to the time pattern. that is to say, they show the van for 5 seconds, then the hotel for 25 seconds, then the snow fortress for 125 seconds. i noticed that about 3 times, and i hope that was indeed the case.

Someone who hasn't seen Inception yet care to bring a stopwatch?

Also:

The room from which Mal jumped was an exact mirror image of the room out of which Cobb was leaning  same flower arrangement, same couch. [source]

Confirm/deny, please.

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